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| YouTube Poop: Not nearly as disgusting as it sounds. |
It goes without saying that there are billions of videos on YouTube today. No matter what your taste is, there is always something enjoyable waiting for you over there.
Many people enjoy watchign videos that make them laugh, myself included. Humour is an evaluative concept, though, so what might make me laugh, you might think is stupid or boring.
One of the funniest types of videos on YouTube today are YouTube Poops. Now, I bet you're wondering, what the heck is a YouTube Poop? Here is the answer.
YouTube Poops, or YTPs for short, are basically an amalgamation or mash-up of various sources - usually, but not limited to, TV shows, movies, commercials, video games, etc. When spliced together using numerous different movie editing programs and editing techniques, the end result is often strange, crazy, nonsensical, and very random. There are various types of YTPs out there, and you can learn more about them here.
Most Poopers - that is, the people who make YTPs - use very similar sources for their videos. Among the most commonly-used sources are The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, a 1993 cartoon, and the cutscenes from the Super Mario and Legend of Zelda games that were released for the ill-fated Phillips CD-i system in the early 1990s.
Some more talented Poopers transform their source material in to songs, referred to as YouTube Poop Music Videos (YTPMVs). This is done by adding a beat to the video, and using sentence-mixing, among other video and audio editing techniques to make the video sound song-like.
Now, I'm a big fan of art - another evaluative concept - and I find that YTPs are an art form. A great deal of work goes into creating these videos - some can take several days to complete - and the end result is something that is as creative as it is random and bizarre. Some of my friends think I'm insane for watching YTPs, but I think they're brilliant. Most Poopers are budding filmmakers, editors, or animators who make YTPs as a side project, mostly to reinforce their video editing skills.
As fun and crazy as YTPs are, many Poopers have run into problems with them. The biggest problem Poopers face is copyright infringement. A great many YTPs have been taken down by YouTube because of this, which resulted in the accounts of many prominent Poopers being suspended or banned outright. Despite this, Poopers continue to share their craft with the world. They have found and exploited a loophole in YouTube's terms of service which allows for the uploading of parody videos. Indeed, many YTPs are, in fact, parodies of the source material on which they are based.
For further reading:
Know Your Meme provides a detailed analysis and history of YouTube Poop. Click here to check it out.
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